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An Age UK survey published yesterday suggests that 32 per cent of grandparents
“only see their grandchildren once a month — or even less frequently”.

This statistic caught my attention because, if 32 per cent have contact once a
month or less, that means that 68 per cent of British grandparents get
together with their grandchildren more than once a month, which I think is
actually quite surprising, heartening and quite possibly the more striking
finding from the research.

Once a month, to my mind, isn’t too bad. Yet, judging by the reporting of
these figures, once a month is rather